Helmut Granda » Helmut Granda http://www.helmutgranda.com learning through interaction Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense http://www.helmutgranda.com/2010/07/19/pattie-maes-and-pranav-mistry-demo-sixthsense/ http://www.helmutgranda.com/2010/07/19/pattie-maes-and-pranav-mistry-demo-sixthsense/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:02 +0000 Helmut Granda http://www.helmutgranda.com/?p=460 This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

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ActionScript:
    var _x = 100;

    function a() : void
    {
       trace("\t\tCalled from A = _x" + _x + "\n");
       
    }

    var b = function (): void
    {
       trace("\t\tCalled from B \n");
    }

    trace("Do a regular B call\n");
    b();

    trace("Convert B to A\n");
    b = a;

    trace("B Converted\n");
    b();
    trace("Do a regular A call\n");
    a();

Result

ActionScript:
    Do a regular B call

          Called from B

    Convert B to A

    B Converted

          Called from A = _x100

    Do a regular A call

          Called from A = _x100

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You may be getting a 403 error and if you look at the logs you should find something similar to the following:

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/project/public/index.php

Solution:

In your .htaccess file add the following line to the begining of the file:

PHP:
    Options +FollowSymLinks

ZendFramework .htaccess ships with the following as default:

PHP:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

Adding the two lines above fixes the problem. So the file should look like this:

PHP:
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
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ActionScript:
    <s :backgroundFill>
       
       </s><s :SolidColor color="#000000" id="defaultColor"></s>
       

Once removed I was able to use

ActionScript:
    this.setStyle("backgroundColor",0x00afe1);

I don't really understand why having the backgroundFill declaration within the body of the component, it would affect the behavior to the point that I wasn't able to change the color of the object but when I find the explanation I will for sure post it here.

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World Entrepreneurship Day

Excellent presentation with wealth of information as well as it spins your mind and makes you wonder what are the limits of your imagination and what you can accomplish.

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PHP:
    <h3>Recent News</h3>
    <ul>
    < ?php
        $recentPosts = new WP_Query();
        $recentPosts->query($query_string . '&post_type=news');
    ?>
    < ?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
    < ?php endwhile; ?>
    </ul>

In the example above I have created a "News" custom type and now I am adding them to the page with a custom loop.

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Ctrl + E: Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + L: Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command
Ctrl + U: Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.
Ctrl + H: Same as backspace
Ctrl + R: Let’s you search through previously used commands
Ctrl + C: Kill whatever you are running
Ctrl + D: Exit the current shell
Ctrl + Z: Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.
Ctrl + W: Delete the word before the cursor
Ctrl + K: Clear the line after the cursor
Ctrl + T: Swap the last two characters before the cursor
Esc + T: Swap the last two words before the cursor

src: http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/19/command-line-keyboard-shortcuts-for-mac-os-x/

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open ~/.bash_profile

add as follows

alias name=path

example:

alias zf=/usr/local/ZendFrameworkCli/bin/zf.sh

if you need to pass a parameter where you need to escape characters or spaces wrap the path in quotes as follows:

alias projects="cd /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs"

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